MILANO – After another difficult session, the European stock markets look cautiously up at the end of the week. Milano salt of 0.38%, London grows by 0.2%, Frankfurt 0.4% e Paris 0.5%. Also it spread he gets back to breathing and drops below 200 points in the morning. The differential between the BTPs and the Bund is positioned in the morning at 197 putni compared to the 202 points of the previous closing. The Italian annual yield fell by 7.5 basis points to 3.65%, while the yield on German bonds dropped 2.6 points to 1.68%.
Sitting in trouble in Asia also for Tokyo, which pays for the decision of the Bank of Japan not to change its monetary policy despite the rush of inflation. The Nikkei index ends the session thus down by 1.77%
On the currency front, the euro opens with a slight drop above $ 1.05. The single currency changes hands for 1.0523 dollars and 141.06 yen. The Japanese currency collapses after the decision of the Boj, widely expected, to confirm its ultra-accommodative policy. The dollar rose as high as 134.64 yen, not far from the 24-year high of 135.6 it reached earlier in the week.
Among commodities, oil did not move much at the start of the day: WTI changed hands at 117.46 dollars a barrel (-0.11%) while Brent was traded at 119.71 dollars (-0.08%).
After yesterday’s slight recovery, cryptocurrencies return to decline. Bitcoin drops in the morning and is approaching the $ 20,000 threshold, a wall that has not yet broken through since the beginning of its whirlwind descent.